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A WOED TO LADS 






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By C. K. TRUE, D.D. 



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NEW YORK: 

CARLTON & LANAHAK 

CINCINNATI: HITCHCOCK & WALDEN, 

TBACT DEPARTMENT. 



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A WORD TO LADS ON TOBACCO. 



Deab Boys, Tobacco is a poison. Here is a fact 
in proof. James Tenny was about eight years 
old, when a visitor to his father's house gave him 
a bright penny as he was going to bed, and he 
lay awake part of the night thinking what he 
should buy with it in the morning. That penny 
proved his ruin. He went early as the sun rose 
to a grocery and called for sugar-plums. The 
mischievous clerk told him he had no plums, but 
he had something better which he would give 
him. He took a piece of tobacco, coated it thick 
with sugar, and told the little boy to put it into 
his mouth and swallow it right down. He did 
so, and in a few minutes he began to feel the 
fatal effects of the poisonous weed. He ran home 
as fast as he could : but his sickness increased 



4 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

with every step, and deadly pale, and trembling 
with fear, he frightened his parents and friends 
by telling them he had swallowed something 
bad. They soon found it was tobacco. The 
physicians were called, the stomach-pump used, 
and other remedies, but all in vain. Nature 
vainly roused all her forces to rescue him ; in the 
struggle the blood burst from his fingers and 
toes, and his body was convulsed with spasms. 
In two hours and a half the child died a victim 
to tobacco, and to the vile practical joke of a 
tobacco chewer. 

But it told the tale of the poisonous nature of 
this mean Indian plant, which no creature is 
foolish enough to eat but depraved man, except 
the loathsomest sort of a green worm, and the 
ugliest species of African goat. Every body in 
the village cried out against the clerk, and his 
master turned him away. Many persons gave up 
chewing and smoking and snuffing; but in a 
little while they forgot the warning, and went at 
it again. 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 5 

So powerful are the charms of this foul nar- 
cotic that health and long life are sacrificed to it 
by millions. 

Dr. Dan King says there are three poisonous 
chemicals in tobacco, one alkaloid and two oils. 
" A single drop of either of the oils put upon the 
tongue of a cat kills her in two minutes, and a 
single grain of the alkaloid is sufficient to kill 
instantly the strongest mastiff." And now do 
you suppose, my dear lads, that a man can 
chew this drug and smoke it every day without 
injuring himself? No. The fact is, that whole 
nations are made sickly by its use; numerous 
diseases may be directly traced to it, and many 
disorders to which men are liable are rendered 
incurable by its disturbing effects on the system. 

Professor John Lizars, M. D., a distinguished 
physician and surgeon of Edinburgh, Scotland, 
says that tobacco creates ulcers on the lips, the 
tongue, gums, cheeks, and tonsils; it produces 
giddiness, vomiting, dyspepsia, looseness of the 
bowels, diarrhea, diseased liver, congestion of the 



6 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

brain, apoplexy, palsy, madness, loss of memory, 
blindness, deafness, nervousness, feebleness and 
cowardice. You may take strychine, which 
comes from nux vomica, a deadly poison, and its 
effects if taken in very small doses will not be felt 
at first ; but in a few days you will find out that 
something terrible has got into your system. 
Indeed, it is absurd to think that any nation can 
be healthy where the custom of using tobacco is 
general. The American people are a very sickly 
people, and the Indian tribes have nearly 
dwindled away, and no doubt tobacco is one of 
the principal causes. Spain was once a great 
nation ; but she is now a vast tobacco shop, and 
of no moral value in the world. The Germans are 
smoking and drinking themselves into stupidity, 
and the English are following the same bad 
example. As to the Turks, and other semi-civil- 
ized nations of the globe, they are only beacons 
of ruin to warn the Christian world not to follow 
in their wake. Opium, rum, and tobacco are 
blasting the bodies and souls of all the nations 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 7 

of the globe; and we call upon the pure and 
innocent boys and girls now coming upon the 
stage of life to form an army of heroic reformers 
to rescue the world' from a dreadful future. 

2. The use of tobacco in any form is ridiculous 
in appearance. — When Columbus was making dis- 
coveries in the "West Indies he anchored in a har- 
bor of Cuba one day, and sent two men up into 
the island to see the people and make a report to 
him. They returned, and reported among other 
things that they saw u the naked savages twist 
large leaves together, light one end in the fire and 
smoke like devils." The way they smoked, and 
the way they taught our ancestors to smoke, was 
to drink in the smoke, and, shutting the mouth, 
let it gush out of both nostrils. Sure enough, 
they must have looked like devils on fire doing 
it this way ! 

One day Sir Walter Raleigh, who was the first, 
or one of the first, to introduce smoking into 
England, was alone at an inn " drinking to- 
bacco " as they called it, when his servant came 



8 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

into the room, and seeing his master surrounded 
by smoke, and the smoke gushing out of his 
nostrils, he took it that Sir Walter was on fire, 
seized a pail of water, and dashed it upon his 
head ! Henry "Ward Beecher describes a cigar 
as " a roll of tobacco with a fire at one end and a 
fool at the other." Eowlands, an old author, in 
his " Knave of Hearts," says of a prodigal : 

" In a tobacco shop resembling hell, 
(Fire, stink, and smoke must be where devils dwell,) 
He sits ; you cannot see his face for vapor ; 
Offering to Pluto with a tallow taper. " 

Dr. Adam Clarke hated tobacco. He said if he 
were to offer a sacrifice to the devil it would be 
a pig stuffed with tobacco ! 

But of all the forms of using tobacco the most 
ludicrous is snuffing. A lively writer thus com- 
ments upon it : " Snuff-taking is an odd custom. 
If we came suddenly upon it in a foreign country 
it would make us split our sides with laughter. 
A grave gentleman takes a little casket out of his 
pocket, puts a finger and a thumb in, brings 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 9 

away a pinch of a sort of powder, and then with 
the most serious air possible, as if he were doing 
one of the most important transactions of his 
life, (for even with the most indifferent snuff- 
takers there is a certain look of importance,) pro- 
ceeds to thrust and keeps thrusting it at his nose ; 
after which he shakes his head, or his waistcoat, 
or his nose itself, or ail three in the style of a 
man who has done his duty, and satisfied the 
most serious claim of his well-being. There is a 
species of long-armed snuff-takers ; these perform 
the operation in a style of potent and elaborate 
preparation ending with a sudden activity. But 
a smaller and rounder man sometimes attempts 
it. He first puts his head on one side, then 
stretches forth the arm with pinch in hand, 
then brings round his hand as a snuff-taking 
elephant might his trunk, and finally shakes 
snuff, head, and nose together in a sudden 
vehemence of convulsion, his eyebrows all the 
while lifted up as if to make room for the onset, 
and when he has ended, he draws himself back 



io A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

to tlie perpendicular, and generally proclaims the 
victory lie has won over the insipidity of the 
previous moment by a sniff and a great " Hah ! " 
Well might such ecstatic delights lead one 
almost to concentrate his aspirations for happi- 
ness on his olfactory organs, and to make his nose 
the shrine of his chief devotions. Alfred Crow- 
quill, in Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering for 1834, 
thus apostrophizes his nose : 

* Knows he that never took a pinch, 
Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows? 
Knows he the titillating joys 
Which my nose knows ? 

" nose ! 1 am as proud of thee 
As any mountain of its snows ; 
I gaze on thee, and feel that pride 
A Roman knows ! " 

F. W. Fairholt, F.S. A., a friend to the weed, 
from whose work on tobacco I quote the above, 
says that Lord Stanhope once made an estimate 
of the time wasted by a snuff-taker of forty years' 
standing, and he concluded that two years of 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 1 1 

his life would be dedicated to tickling his nose and 
two years more to blowing it ! Time well spent, 
our learned author might allow, for he seems to 
think the Indian weed the greatest plant outside 
of Paradise. But what sensible boy that reads 
this will not rejoice that this disgusting treat- 
ment of the nose is going out of vogue, under the 
irresistible lash of ridicule and contempt. An 
old lady who was weak enQugh to love snuff, 
and to hope it did not do her any harm, asked 
her physician if snuff ever injured folks' brains. 
" Not in the least, madam," said he, " for folks 
who have any brains don't use it." ' 

3. It is a filthy 'practice. — What can be more 
dirty than to fill one's nose with black or brown 
dust, and then to sneeze it out on the air, or driz- 
zle it out on a handkerchief? It is not merely 
" making a dust-pan of the nose," but a sink 
drain! And how much better is it to keep a 
black quid in your mouth, making you drool so 
plentifully that you must keep up a perpetual 
spitting in peril of swallowing what would 



12 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

destroy life. The smell of a Havana cigar may 
become fragrant to one accustomed to it, but it 
leaves the mouth sour and the breath offensive ; 
while the smoke infects the clothes, the hair, the 
room, and growing old, it becomes putrid and 
disagreeable. And what is more disagreeable 
than old tobacco smoke ? Not the smell of the 
charnel house itself. And the white spit of 
smokers, though not so acrid and nauseous as 
the brown juice of tobacco chewed, is utterly dis- 
gusting to every unitiated beholder. 

How intolerable this nuisance in a rail car, or 
an office, or store ! Much more so in a kitchen or 
sitting-room, or pew at the church. And not to 
be offensive to others, the chewer or smoker must 
put himself often to the inconvenience of doing 
without his customary inspiration at a time when 
he feels the need of it most ; and if he cannot or 
will not do without it, and at the same time 
wishes to avoid being a nuisance, what can he 
do ? O what shifts have tobacco chewers had to 
make sometimes ! A man sitting with his wife 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 13 

and other ladies in a strange church, and listen- 
ing with delight to a popular speaker, all uncon- 
sciously, by the force of habit, put a piece of 
tobacco into his mouth. Of course it was but a 
little while before he had to look round for a 
spittoon ; but, alas ! there was none in the pew. 
He then thought of his handkerchief, but he had 
a nice new one which his wife had lately given 
him, and he could not think of spitting in that. 
He bore his trouble as long as he could. At 
length he got up suddenly, opened the pew door 
and went out, without saying a word to his wife, 
for he could not speak. Much to his chagrin she 
immediately followed him, thinking he was taken 
ill. He scarcely reached the street door before 
his distended mouth burst, and the contents flew 
out right in the eyes of a little dog that ran up 
to meet him ! Just then his wife put her hand 
on his shoulder and said tenderly, a What is the 
matter, husband ? Are you sick ? " 

" O, wife," said he, " what did you come out 
for ? I only came out here to spit, and if you 



14 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

had not come I could have slipped back again ; 
but now what would the congregation think? " 

But every man will not take such pains to 
avoid giving offense. Many will spit in a corner 
of a pew, in the passage way of a car, or under 
the seat ; and every lady that comes in will be in 
danger of soiling her skirts — oftentimes spoiling 
a costly dress. O filthy Americans ! "I have often 
exclaimed aloud as I have had to sit down in a 
car over a puddle of foul saliva. 

But what shall the poor votary of tobacco do ? 
He can't get the window of the car open perhaps, 
and if he don't chew he is miserable, and so 
he makes up his mind to be impolite. "Ladies," 
said a smoker as he entered the stage coach, " I 
hope my cigar will not be offensive ? " 

" Yes, yes, sir," was the reply ; " it will be very 
offensive." 

He nodded, and said drily, " It is so to some," 
and went on with his smoking. No doubt in 
their hearts the ladies voted him a nuisance and 
no gentleman. 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 15 

Said the celebrated Daniel Webster, " If young 
gentlemen must smoke, let them take to the 
horse-shed.*' Think, my boys, of the degradation 
of resorting to a horse-shed or a cow-yard to 
enjoy your sweetest luxury, the semi-intoxication 
of tobacco ! How can a pure-minded youth put 
himself into a position to be sneered at. A 
Scotch physician says : " My father had a great 
objection to smoking; but when I thought he 
was not likely to find it out I used to smoke a 
cigar. One day, just as I was turning the corner 
of a street, to my mortification I met him. With- 
out saying a word, he looked askance, and walked 
round me in a semicircular direction. That cured 
me of smoking, and he never caught me at it 
again." A writer who relates this remarks, " I 
hope fathers of Yankee boys who smoke will 
take a semicircle around them and effect a 
cure." 

4. It is a moral slavery. — " I would as soon be 
a slave on a plantation," said Dr. Woods, " as a 
slave to tobacco!" Slavery is a condition in 



1 6 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

which you are constrained to do what you feel is 
inconvenient or unhealthy, or uncleanly or expen- 
sive. If smoking and chewing were free from 
all these evils it would be no harm to smoke or 
chew ; but when the tobacco user feels or fore- 
sees all these evils, and yet, by the cravings of an 
unnatural appetite, is compelled to practice it on 
peril of uneasiness or mental vacancy at first, and 
afterward of prostration, delirium, consumption, 
or even death, that man is a slave ; he is obliged 
to do what he dreads to do. Rev. George Trask, 
of Fitchburg, Mass., whose almost solitary toil 
for years as a pioneer in this reform will render 
his name immortal, says : ■ " I know one who said, 
' Sir, I can hear no more ; for all you say of this 
drug is true, and cuts me in pieces. I have been 
a slave to it twenty years, and shall die a slave ; 
but if my son uses it I will disinherit him ! ' " 
He mentions also the case of a clergyman 
who was striving to reclaim a drunkard, when 
the drunkard turned upon him and said, 
" If you will give up your snuff I will give up 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. ij 

my rum." It was agreed to ; "but in less than 
forty-eight hours the clergyman was in perfect 
anguish for his snuff. He set a spy over the 
drunkard to watch for his downlalL; and when 
told that the fatal cup had passed his lips, he 
flew to his snuff-box with the fury of a maniac, 
made himself idiotic, and died a fool. 

The interesting writer of " Stories on Tobacco 
for American Lads," calling himself Uncle Toby, 
says : " I know an excellent clergyman who 
assures me he sometimes weeps like a child when 
putting a quid to his mouth, under a sense of 
degradation and bondage to this filthy poison. 
I know a distinguished teacher in the State of 
Maine who for some time debated the question, 
' Shall I commit suicide by using tobacco, which 
I know is killing me, or shall I give it up and 
live ? ' " How he decided the question is not 
stated ; but how sad that any educated man 
should be so degraded as to hesitate on a ques- 
tion like that! Now, my lads, you see where 

you will be some years hence if you commence 

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1 8 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

\ and keep on smoking. You will be enveloped in 
the folds of a serpent which will charm you more 
and more as he presses you closer and closer in 
his foul and fatal embrace. I entreat you, for 
the sake of others, for your soul's sake, to 
declare your freedom while you yet have power 
to maintain it. 

5. It Mights and "blasts the intellect — The mind 
is dependent for its manifestations upon its subtle 
and mysterious connections with the nervous 
system; if that system is disordered or enfeebled, 
especially if the brain is diseased, the mind 
is almost as much affected by it as if it were 
itself material. To keep the mind ever grow- 
ing and vigorous the nerves must be kept in a 
healthy condition. Now a narcotic or stimulant 
produces at first an excitement of the nerves which 
exhilarates the mind and rouses it to action ; but 
it sinks again as much lower when the artificial 
excitement is over, and to rouse it again requires 
a repetition of the process, and finally the mind 
loses its power of self-inspiration, and depends 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 19 

upon the stimulus altogether ; and as an increase 
of the stimulus is needed to raise it to the 
same pitch of activity, it evidently tends toward 
complete prostration by the exhaustion of the 
latent nervous energy. By degrees every power 
goes to decay; the imagination becomes dim, 
the memory falters, and the reasoning powers 
lose their grasp of the subtle connections of 
thought. But this is not all ; by the poisonous 
influence of tobacco the brain in many cases 
becomes so diseased that insanity ensues. Even 
small boys have made themselves maniacs by 
excessive smoking and chewing. 

" I was once," says Uncle Toby, " on the 
banks of one of our New England rivers, where 
tobacco growers are beginning to abound. One 
of the number proposed to show me a youth on 
whom the poison had done fearful execution! 
Having a leisure hour, I went with him to the 
house where the parents of the young wretch 
live. Though considerably advanced in life, they 
seemed busy, rational, hale, and happy, and will 



20 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

outlive, I dare say, a thousand young men along 
that river who already have the marks of age 
impressed upon their features by the free use of 
this poison. 

" I had been seated but a moment when I heard 
strange sounds over my head ; strange indeed ! 
Whether it was groaning, sighing, singing, shout- 
ing, sporting, howling, or any thing human or 
inhuman, I could not divine ; but whatever it 
may have been it lasted but a moment, and was 
simply a preparation for something more blood- 
stirring ! 

"All on a sudden James Dixey, the young 
maniac, was in motion; he rattled down the 
staircase, and whirled around the room with the 
fury of a tornado ! 

" His eyes were distended, wild, and flashing 
fire ! His skin was greasy, and the hue of dirty 
brass, or a boiled chicken ! His muscles were 
distorted, his hair clotted, and his attitude, 
expression and all, was obscene and awfully 
loathsome ! 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 21 

" The tobacco demon, (I believe tobacco hath 
a devil, and the devil hath it,) I say the tobacco 
demon, who had possession of this mad boy was 
by no means bashful or retiring ; he planted his 
victim by my side in a moment, and with a full 
fiendish gaze in my face he cried out tobacco ! 
tobacco ! with an unearthly scream, that seemed 
to well-nigh raise the roof! 

"Much followed that I must not record. 
Suffice it to say, that on the top of his scream for 
tobacco he put questions too horrid to bear 
recital. 

"Before leaving the place I made myself 
acquainted with the history of James Dixey, so 
far as his being made a maniac by tobacco 
was concerned. I was told he would smoke day 
and night without cessation if allowed ; that 
the family were obliged to keep matches away 
from him, or his smoking operations would 
wrap them all in flames at midnight ! 

" Tobacco he would have at any rate. When 
not furnished by his parents he would beg it 



22 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

from door to door. When he eould not beg it 
he would steal it. When he could not get it in 
one town he would go to another; and there was 
no peace day nor night beneath the roof when 
the young maniac was out of tobacco." 

6. Tobacco will destroy the soul. — I do not say 
that this will be the case always, for God is mer- 
ciful, and the times of our ignorance he winks at. 
Nevertheless, every one in this day of light that 
uses the poisonous and filthy weed as a luxury 
may well doubt whether he is accepted with 
God. " Know ye not that ye are the temple of 
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in 
you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him 
shall God destroy." "Happy is he that con- 
demneth not himself in that which he alloweth." 
" He that doubteth is damned if he eat." Per- 
haps it was a serious doubt like this that made 
an old Christian woman, addicted to the use of 
the pipe, dream as she did one night. She 
thought that she died, and her spirit went up to 
the gate of heaven and knocked for admission. 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 23 

St. Peter came to the door with the keys and 
asked her who she was, and what she wanted. 
She said she was a Christian, and she wanted to 
come in. He requested an angel that stood by to 
go and see if her name was in the Book of Life. 
He soon returned and said there was no such 
name there. "Not there!" she exclaimed, 
" You must be mistaken ; do go again and see." 
She was so earnest about it the kind angel went, 
but he returned again with a pensive countenance 
and said, "I am sorry, my good woman, but I 
really cannot find your name in the book." 
" Not find it ! It is there;" said she, addressing 
herself with emphasis to St. Peter, " for I have 
been a Christian these fifty years, and have had 
the witness of the Spirit." St. Peter begged the 
angel to try again. He went, and returned soon 
with an altered countenance, and said, "I have 
found it at last, but it was so covered up with 
tobacco smoke I could scarcely see it." She 
awoke and found herself in tears, and from that 
day she smoked no more, for she took her dream 



24 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

as a warning from God. Indeed, her honest 
doubt probably wrought out through the imagi- 
nation this vision, and so it was a natural, if not 
a supernatural, warning from God. 

But it is not merely as a wrong practice that 
stimulating with tobacco endangers our prospect 
of eternal life ; but as putting the mind in a state 
of exhilaration sometimes bordering on intoxica- 
tion, which must be unfriendly to the inspira- 
tions of the Holy Ghost and the sweet influences 
of grace. Moreover, carnal excitements preoccupy 
the mind, and satisfy it without the holy raptures 
of religion. "Be not drunk with wine," said an 
Apostle, "wherein is excess, but be filled with 
the Spirit ! " If the Indian weed had been the 
popular luxury of that clay I make no doubt 
the Apostle would have said, "Take care how 
you mingle with your spiritual offerings the 
smoke of that foul and pestilential weed ! " Not 
only are Christians injured in their religious 
enjoyment by this heathenish indulgence, but 
many are tempted by it not to become Christians. 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 25 

They are convicted by a sermon or by a solemn 
Providence, and they experience a desire to be- 
come the subjects of divine grace and pardon ; 
but as they leave the house of God, by the force 
of habit they take the cigar or the quid, and 
the soothing influence of the narcotic steals over 
their senses, and they become indifferent to the 
warnings which they have heard. Many a ship 
has been wrecked because the man at the helm 
was made all too easy about the surrounding perils 
by the syren charms of the deceitful opiate. 
So, many a soul is wrecked on the shoals of 
indifference and inertia that might have been 
saved. There is probably at this moment no 
greater hinderance to the cause of religion and 
morality than tobacco. 

Lately I was taken by a policeman to see the 
mysteries of iniquity in one of our large cities, 
and the most striking exhibition of depravity 
which I beheld was young girls in the dancing 
saloons smoking their long nines ! It stamped 
in the memory the unholy alliance of tobacco 



26 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

with rum and lust in the ruin of immortal 
souls. 

But I must hasten to the conclusion. The 
trumpet of battle is now sounding against this 
species of intemperance. Henceforth every one 
will have to take sides. I cail upon all the boys 
in the land to enlist under the banner of perfect 
purity in all things. For those who have, not 
formed the taste for tobacco, it will be easy to 
resolve never to touch the accursed thing, except 
to throw it into the fire or into the sea ; and for 
those who unhappily have begun the practice, it 
is never too late to break off in the name of God 
while yet they are young and growing. Even old 
men, by a resolute will and the help of Christ, 
have been able to break the bondage of many 
years. An old Christian, somewhat hard of 
hearing, coming home from a church meeting, 
where the subject of tobacco had been under 
consideration, commenced filling his pipe ; when 
his son, who had been present at the meeting, 
said, 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 27 

" Father, what are you doing ? " 

11 Why, I am going to have a smoke." 

" But, father, did you not say in the church, 
just now, that you would renounce the use of 
tobacco ? " 

" Was that what they were talking about ? I 
could not hear ; I saw others get up, and so I did, 
as I didn't want to be odd." 

" Well," said the son, u you voted away your 
tobacco." 

" Very well, then," said the old man, " here 
it goes ! " and he threw it as far as he could ; 
and he has never tasted of tobacco from that 
time. 

He is a hero. As it regards that Church, they 
have ever since had extraordinary prosperity in 
religion. Such things can be done and will be, 
all over the Christian world, before the millennium 
comes. 

I end by quoting a rare piece of poetry by an 
author known to me only by his initials, J. S., 
showing how the curse of tobacco has fallen upon 



28 A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 

the white man for his crime of poisoning the 
Indian races by the fire-waters ; expressing the 
hope that this sort of vengeance may end here, 
and that opium may not come after tobacco to 
punish the Western nations for their corruption 
of the Children of the Sun by nicotine and 
alcohol. 

" An Indian sat in a thoughtful mood, 

With vengeance on his brow ; 
His heart beat quick, and fired his blood 

To launch a terrible blow ! 

" ' I'll be avenged ! The proud pale face 

Shall all my vengeance feel ; 

I'll run him down in a hunter's chase 

With weapons worse than steel. 

" ' He stole my lands ! he drove me away ! 

And with fire-water cursed ! 
The game — it is mine to end the play, 

And his shall be the worst. 



A Word to Lads on Tobacco. 29 

11 ( My weapons are in this box and bale, 
To be snuffed and chewed and smoked ; 

To be welcomed with wine and rum and ale, 
With every evil yoked. 

11 ' Go, poisonous weed ! the pale face curse ; 

Go, stab him to the heart ! 
Then tell him to call an Indian nurse 

To ply the healer's art! 

" 'Ugh ! I'll wire his nerves, and lay them bare 

To every sweeping wind ; 
And fire his brain, till demons glare 

On his excited mind. 

" ' His heart, oppressed like a lab'ring wheel, 

Shall stop and rush by turns ; 
"While a sluggish stupor warps his will, 

Or hell within him burns. 

" ' To a quenchless thirst, and clouded mind, 

I'll add a fetid breath ; 
Make him to every disease incline — 

An easy prey to death. ' 



30 A Wood to Lads on Tobacco. 

" Thus the Indian weed shall his wrongs redress, 

In the old savage way ; 
Till Indian and pale face dwell in peace, 

And for each other pray." 



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